ONE SEASON - the Story of Steagles

Based on a true Story... Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have hated each other for a century. In 1943, the war forced them to share a football team. >Nobody expected much. The Philadelphia Inquirer predicted two wins. The players were factory workers, 4-F draftees, and castoffs - men turned away by their country for flat feet, bad knees, and failing eyesight, who worked forty-hour shifts in defense plants before suiting up on Sunday afternoons. Their coaches despised each other. Their cities despised each other. They went 5-4-1. It was the first winning season in Eagles franchise history. One Season is the story of how twenty-two improbable men - blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, thirty-four years old and complaining about their chin straps - became something neither city expected and both cities needed. Set against the backdrop of wartime America, it is a novel about what happens when the wrong people refuse to be the wrong people.